Ray From Cleveland
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I think you are underestimating the situation many of these city gvts are in and are overly optimistic of the power of the national guard....I've been thinking about this for some time now. The left have called themselves progressives in the past, but now this is evident more than ever. They keep progressing towards removing deterrents to crime. Let's look at it:
*The left consistently tries to remove (or restrict) firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens.
*They have taken the stance that ICE should be dissolved.
*They have created sanctuary cities, and after Trump's election, sanctuary states.
*These riots could have been stopped, or even prevented by liberal Mayors asking the state for National Guard aid, but didn't. Nor did any of them accept the Presidents generous offer to help. Some of these disorders have been going on for months.
*They've long stood against the death penalty. They are fine with killing babies, but not killing murderers or mass murderers.
*They are now trying to defund, or even eliminate their police departments.
*They (Soros) have started organizations to provide bail to rioters who were arrested so they can get out to continue their crime spree.
*They shutdown the government for the longest time in history to prevent the President from building a wall.
So what do all these leftist policies have in common? They are all designed to weaken or remove deterrents to crime. While I understand the left is pretty much void of logic, the question is, what would weakening or removing these deterrents accomplish? The answer is, to promote more illegal activity.
Now that an election is coming up, do you vote for a candidate who's party is for getting rid of deterrents, or do you vote for a candidate that's for deterrents, and even stronger deterrents to help slow down or stop illegal activity?
These are cities coming out of lockdown with some as high as 40% of the citizens in inner city, laid off....unemployed, without jobs....with all the time in the world, on their side....
This isn't one of our typical situations with protests..... there is no short term solution, no twinkle the nose, all's good, bewitched solution....imo.
There is no reason for the protests or the riots. A police officer kneeled on some guy who died partly because of it. Mostly he was doped up on deadly narcotics. In any case, the officer was immediately arrested and charged, even before an investigation started yet alone completed.
So what more did they want? Nothing. Using that situation to act like uncivilized animals. Excuses are like assholes, everybody has one. However there are tens of millions out of work today, and they find better things to do with their time than cause problems.
I think it is a stretch to say the cop kneeling on the guy contributed to his death...especially after the autopsy. He had 2X the lethal dose of fentanyl in his system...he was already dead when the cops showed up.........kneeling on his neck had nothing to do with his death.
I was going by the original autopsy report. According to that, the kneeling was a contributing factor to his death, but of course the defense will fight that conclusion given his intoxication at the time.
I was a fan of the show COPS. I've seen police officers all over the country kneeling on the necks of out of control suspects like this guy. Nobody ever died from it.